6-Methyl-2,4-Disubstituted Pyridazin-3(<i>2H</i>)-ones: A Novel Class of Small-Molecule Agonists for Formyl Peptide Receptors
作者:Agostino Cilibrizzi、Mark T. Quinn、Liliya N. Kirpotina、Igor A. Schepetkin、Jeff Holderness、Richard D. Ye、Marie-Josephe Rabiet、Claudio Biancalani、Nicoletta Cesari、Alessia Graziano、Claudia Vergelli、Stefano Pieretti、Vittorio Dal Piaz、Maria Paola Giovannoni
DOI:10.1021/jm900592h
日期:2009.8.27
Following a ligand-based drug design approach, a potent mixed formyl peptide receptor I (FPR1) and formyl peptide receptor-like I (FPRL1) agonist (14a) and a potent and specific FPRL1 agonist (14x) were identified. These compounds belong to a large series of pyridazin-3(2H)-one derivatives substituted with methyl group at position 6 and a methoxy benzyl at position 4. At position 2, an acetamide side chain is essential for activity. Likewise, the presence of lipophilic and/or electronegative substituents in the position para to the aryl group at the end of the chain plays a critical role for activity. Affinity for FPR1 receptors was evaluated by measuring intracellular calcium flux in HL-60 cells transfected with FPR1, FPRL1, and FPRL2, Agonists were able to activate intracellular calcium mobilization and chemotaxis in human neutrophils. The most potent chemotactic agent (EC50 = 0.6 mu M) was the mixed FPR/FPRL1 agonist 14h.